Distributing apparatus for lighting gas-flames at a distance.



PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

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E. WORRINGEN. DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS POR LIGHTING GAS FLAMES AT A DISTANCE. APPLIUATION FILED JUNI: 21, 1904.

PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

E. WORRINGEN, DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS FUR LIGHTING GAS FLAMES AT A DISTANCE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 21, 1904.

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NTTED STATES Patented February 28, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDUARD WORRINGEN, OF COLOGNE, GERMANY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,494, dated February 28, 1905.

Application filed June 2l, 1904. Serial No. 213,464.

Beit known that I, EDUARD WORRINGEN, residing at Cologne. Germany, have invented a new and useful Distributing Apparatus for Lighting Gas-Flames ata Distance, of which the following is a full and complete specification.

The apparatus in question is a feed and turningofi' motion for such distance gaslighters as have a body placed on the gas-pipe, this body being supplied with angle-shaped channels and a revolving ratchet-wheel for regulating the gas. This wheel s, which is affixed to the body al and which is furnished with pins or teeth is actuated by a pawl c, which is pivoted on a lever t, which is in its turn actuated by a spring f, which may be moved by hand or air pressure or electricity in the usual manner.

Figure l shows the distributing and lighting contrivances applied to an incandescent burner which is given in longitudinal section. Figs. 2 to l1 show varying applications of the feeding wheel or disk s and of the body (t.

ln the apparatus as constructed in Figs. 2 and 3 the regulator s consists of a hollow drum or disk, which has on one side a feed slot or groove c for the gas, annular in shape and communicating with the feed-passage 7i. There are also a number (in the present instance six) of evenly-distributed exit holes or openings o made in the same side of disk s as groove e. Above the angle-formed feedpassages /r there are two exit-pipes l and t, one of them :feeding the full llame and the other the bead or tine flame. The distance between the outlets of the pipesf/ and which are under the drum s, is half that between the holes o. ln consequence on a forward movement, which is always equal to half the distance between the holes o, one of` the latter is put into communication with the pipe Z, while the pipe I' is closed. and on the next forward movement thc reverse takes place, the pipe l being' closed and Z/ opened and the bead left burning, having lighted itself on the full l'lame before it went out, or the full fiame is left burning, lighted by thcbead before going out. lt will be seen that by simply turning the regulating-drum the lighting-name can be groove a, one close to the other.

turned out or lighted without the bead burning while. the full (lame is alight.

The arrangement shown in Fig. 7 works in the manner just described, and shown in Figs. 2 and 3, with this difference that the exit-holes o in the drum are not connected with the passage and with each other by means of a hollow space or cavity, but by a groove s vstem n., formed on one side of disk s, as represented in section in Fig. t.

r1`he construction shown in Figs. 5 and (i works in the same manner, the annular portion of the groove In., as shown in Fig. 7, being done away with. 'l`o cmnpensate for this, there are two feed-passages and 1', the distance between which is the half of that be tween the openings n. On each one-twelfth of a turn of the drum s the passages f/ come alternately into juxtaposition with the holes o, and consequently into communication with the groove n. VIn the same manner the passages t Z communicate alternately with the holes o, so that the lighting' and thin llames are fed. The two passages and f could also be replaced by a pipe or other passage of a suitable width. The revolving drum or regulator enables a part of the Ights---for example, the jets in street-lamps--to belighted or turned out earlier than others.

In the forms shown in Figs. 8 to l1 it is presumed that there is a bead-flame burning continually the gas for which does not pass disk s, but is fed separately to the bead-flame. The revolving portions s of theindividual lamps are in the cmistructions shown in Figs. 8 and 9 so arranged that their grooves are set at ditlerent angles. ln this manner there are always two of the holes n o connected by the ln the position shown in Fig. 8 one of the openings n is fed by the passage the gas passing from suoli passage through opening 0', g'roove w." to the opposite opening r/, and through pipe to the burner. I n Fig. 9, on the contrary, the gas enters through one of the openings oL and passes to the burner through groove n opposite opening' o and pipe l. When the revolving portion s of both burners is moved evenly through one-sixteenth of a complete rotation, two opposite openings o2 of IOO the disk .s (shown in Fig. 8) will register with passage Z and pipe respectively, so as to supply the burner with gas, while passage and pipe l ot the disk s (shown in Fig. 9) are closed. At the next turn of disk through the angle above stated the gas will also be shut olf from the burner controlled b v disk ot Fig. 8, so that both burners are extinguished. At the next turn of the disks the burner ted by disk .s of Fig. 9 is first supplied with gas through openings o', while the other burner remains cut olf, and so on.

ln the construction shown in Figs. lO and 11 there is in Fig. 11 a passage 1" on the right ot' the center line. When the regulators take up the positions indicated in Figs. l() and 11, both burners are fed. It' the regulator is turned a one-twelfth to the left, only the passages and 7 ot' the burner controlled by the disk .w in Fig. 10 remain open. while pipe otl the burner controlled by the disk .s in Fig. 11 is closed. On turning the apparatus further the whole of the canals Z. and are closed. On the next following turn the disks take up their positions as shown and the two ames are fed.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

1. A gas-burner having a gas-inlet and a gas-outlet, combined with a pivoted disk having a groove adapted to communicate with the inlet, and openings for connecting' the groove with the outlet. substantially as specified.

2. A gas-burner provided with a gas-inlet and a pair ot' gas-outlets, combined with a pivoted disk havinga groove for connecting the inlet with either of the two outlets, substantially as specilied.

3. A gas-burner provided with a gas-inlet, a pair of gas-outlets, and a grooved disk communicating with the gas-inlet and having on one side a series of openings communicating with the groove and adapted to register with the outlets, substantially as specified.

Signed b v me at Cologne, Germany, this LLth day ot' June, 1904.

EDUARD 7GB-RINGEN.

lVitnesses:

VILHELM Kxnrrnns, PAUL GORMAND. K 

